Accurate, objective measurement techniques are needed to monitor emissions, to develop new waste handling procedures and to reduce the production of the volatile gases.

Examples of such studies would include, wasteminimization programs, solid waste handling procedures, study of emissions from truck brakes made with RCF materials.

In 2003, the plant's operating licence was revoked temporarily due to liquid radioactive waste handling procedures resulting in waste being disposed into open water.

Many of the landfill sites around the Campania region are controlled by the local mafia, the Camorra, who have made a lucrative business out of subverting waste handling procedures and shipping in the industrial waste from the north.